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An anime titled 'Code: Realize - Sousei no Himegimi' has been announced alongside some other game releases.

Plot Summary:

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Cardia has a deadly poison residing in her body, and as a result gets called a ‘monster’ by others. One night, she meets a mysterious man calling himself ‘Arsene Lupin’ who leads her to ‘Industrial London’. From there, she meets various people uncovering the truths and the real stories behind the ‘strange people and land’ in attempt to recover her memories and to search for her father who holds the keys to her memories in London.

I got into the otome genre a little while ago to have more of a basis for comparison (and I was bored out of my mind), and I heard some people saying that this was a good game. Apparently, it's steampunk? I don't think anyone should go into the anime with high expectations, since otome adaptations are usually mediocre. It's a pessimistic view, but best to be pleasantly surprised than to be disappointed in the end. I'll still probably check it out though.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the game is coming to North America, right? I don't know if I should try it. I'm still stuck on Sweet Fuse and Hakuouki. After completing the first routes, I couldn't summon the willpower to go through all the dialogue again, let alone six more times. Can't believe how dedicated some people are...

Nothing says 'steampunk' quite as much as a collection of random gears scattered around for no reason.

Dammit, I knew the mechanic guy's name rang a bell, but he's the head of the Baltimore Gun Club in Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon".

So. Last season we had a steampunky alt-Victorian England show featuring Cavorite, and this season we get the steampunky alt-Victorian England show with a Jules Verne reference, who sent his men to the moon using gunpowder. LITERARY FIGHT!
This amuses me.

Only one episode, and this is already doing better than a lot of otome anime adaptations in existence. Lupin was honestly apologetic when he realized he came off as strong, and the other guys called him out on it, so at least we don't have a terrible male cast on hand. The non-reaction to Impey's shojo sparkles was also a nice, humorous touch.

I was a little irked by how Cardia seemed to suffer from otome-anime-protagonist syndrome (meek, one word statements; passively stands by while scenes are dominated by male leads) for the first half, but things got better by the second half of the episode. Cardia's supposed to be a great protagonist, so I'm tentatively expecting things to get better as the anime continues.

Her VA, Saori Hayami, also voiced Kusanagi from Kamigami no Asobi, who was also a decent protagonist, so here's to looking forward to a solid adaptation!

The VN played itself out better. Exposition and info-dump spanned for like 3 minutes straight without decent pacing in the episode compared to the VN where it was somewhat necessary yet paced better. Not only that, the dog scene was kinda silly, considering they came out of nowhere compared to the VN where the guards had dogs and one of them bit Cardia (while she tried prevent the dog from essentially killing itself than the guy at the beginning holding her chin, making Leonhardt more sensible to realize that Cardia wasn't all that of a monster from her reluctance). Moreover, Cardia had a much stronger characterization in the VN than what was near the end of the episode where she was given a choice by Lupin and she realized her desire and ambition while giving a straight answer. While the two scenes in both VN and the anime are somewhat similar in context, they are entirely different in execution (the former being better).

Steampunk setting makes this Otome adaptation interesting. And the girl has poison? Hmm, I'll follow this one to see how things turn out. Just hoping Cardia doesn't fall into the meek, mindless Otome heroine like most of her predecessors.